Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Mainstream Media is America's greatest threat (vanity)
Myself

Posted on 08/10/2016 9:35:49 AM PDT by Crucial

The Mainstream media is completely out of control. It only masqurades as news entity. It's bias against Trump is implicit. It ignores the growing Hillary Clinton body count of hackers and witnesses to her crimes. Hillary's email's show a very cozy and colluding relationship with the DNC. Republicans they just attack and scrutinize until they squeeze out something that might be perceived as negative. Crimes by Democrats against America and Americans' Liberty is routinely ignored.

The media never passes up a chance to put a happy face on a federal agency. Does it ask how the EPA's decrees might put people out of work. Did it criticize ObamaCare even though it's widely known as a failure? Is it concerned that Social Security is going bust? Does it care that America's armed forces are working with outdated weapons and equipment that is falling apart? Does it care that it is so very difficult for any individual to start a business, take his destiny in his own own hands and be self-sufficient, because the government taxes him to death or regulates his business into oblivion? Yeah, right. The media doesn't care about personal independence. Face it, the mainstream media is the People's greatest enemy. It is a full frontal assault on individual freedom by undermining our elections through implicit bias, spinning facts, ignoring concerns about Democrats and even covering up vital information about Americans' enemies.

Islam is a religion of peace? In what universe? Four hundred million shipped in the middle of the night to a terrorist government is no big deal to the media? The mainstream media is enemy number one. The lies are a constant stream, an unending flow of misinformation and brainwashing 24/7 on multiple channels. The threat of the media needs to be taken more seriously than any other threat, even terrorism, because the media has weakened America and turned us against each other through its lies all while supporting America's enemies.


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: media
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-118 next last

1 posted on 08/10/2016 9:35:49 AM PDT by Crucial
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Crucial

Public Enemy #1


2 posted on 08/10/2016 9:37:12 AM PDT by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial


3 posted on 08/10/2016 9:37:18 AM PDT by tomkat (PC > we kill it, or it kills US)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

Bingo and well said!


4 posted on 08/10/2016 9:38:20 AM PDT by Williams (Make America Great Again)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

Tucker Carlson: the Sad State of Modern Journalism
Accuracy in Academia ^ | August 10, 2016 | Alex Nitzberg

Posted on 8/10/2016, 9:02:47 AM by Academiadotorg

Criticizing the state of modern journalism, Tucker Carlson told AIM that journalists’ obsequious behavior, blatant bias and monolithic worldview have compromised the integrity of the nation’s fourth estate.

Carlson, a member of the Fox News team and a veteran journalist who co-founded the Daily Caller, asserts that many journalists bask in the presence of “the powerful” and are “…afraid to challenge anybody in power.”

“That’s kind of exactly the opposite of what you want. I mean the whole reason that journalists have a special kind of place in American society is because they’re entrusted with this job to kind of keep the powerful honest and to speak on behalf of the population and the second they go over to the other side and start sucking up to politicians, for example, is the second they’ve betrayed that charge.”

Questioned about the media’s election coverage Carlson opined, “I don’t think by and large they have been covering it, they’ve been advocating on behalf of one candidate against another.”

He explained that regardless of the election’s outcome, the media’s advocacy has destroyed its claim to objectivity.

Pointing out that a conflict of interest will arise if Trump wins and the largely anti-Trump media must report on his presidency, he said, “ … how are they gonna cover that, the administration? Can they? Haven’t they discredited themselves?”

“By the way,” he continued, “if Hillary wins, same thing. They’ve been working for her election and now they’re in charge of telling us what her administration is doing, can we trust them with that? I don’t think so.”

Condemning the practice of journalists who air their opinions on social media accounts, Carlson noted the corrosive effect this has on the public’s trust as they can easily discover a journalist’s political leanings.

Carlson says that while he values diversity, within the modern field of journalism “ … everybody has the same experience, they’re all from the same world, they all have the same assumptions, they all went to the same schools.”

He described journalism school as an “indoctrination center” that perpetuates the lack of diversity of thought in the media industry.

” … journalism school is just another sameness factory that pumps out people with identical opinions, and by the way, it’s only accessible to a certain kind of person — the exact kind of person we don’t need any more of in journalism — affluent, entitled, activist.”

Carlson believes journalists should seek the truth, “even if it leads them into uncomfortable places and especially if it leads them to places they didn’t expect to arrive … that’s what I thought journalism was, pursuit of what’s true, of accuracy, but not just accuracy, of truth.”

Alex Nitzberg is an intern at the American Journalism Center at Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3458320/posts


5 posted on 08/10/2016 9:39:14 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ((My passion for freedom is stronger than that of the Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

You’re right, of course. How does Donald Trump get his message out?


6 posted on 08/10/2016 9:39:40 AM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

Public Enemy #2.

Public Enemy #1 is the idiots who fall for it.


7 posted on 08/10/2016 9:40:33 AM PDT by MUDDOG
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial
The Founding Fathers put checks and balances everywhere. They gave freedom of the press to the press, thinking that would be their check.

We have an un-free press. They are on a cultural and ideological short leash.

8 posted on 08/10/2016 9:41:35 AM PDT by llevrok (Lies are born the moment someone thinks the truth is dangerous.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial
Been saying for decades, the dem party is the political wing of the media.

Together they will destroy this country.

9 posted on 08/10/2016 9:41:52 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

Outstanding!

I’ve been saying this for years.

Ownership of stock in alphabet media must get dillouted no matter what it
takes.


10 posted on 08/10/2016 9:42:03 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

The quality of our government will never exceed the quality of the press. We’re toast.


11 posted on 08/10/2016 9:43:05 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

100% right!
The media is the worst institution of all. It is even worse than the left wing democrats. It could do the country a service by telling the people the truth, but it has deliberately and intentionally chosen to use its resources to promote a leftist agenda, and to destroy normal thinking.


12 posted on 08/10/2016 9:45:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial
The Mainstream Media is America's greatest threat

Of this I have been trying to convince people for decades.

ISIS is not our worst threat. The Taliban is not our worst threat. Russia is not our worst threat.

Our worst threat is the control of information that is being implemented by what we refer to as "the Mainstream Media".

The media people have been manipulating elections. They have deliberately undermined the process by which a representative democracy can function by rigging the system.

They have rigged the system by how they control the information which the American public is permitted to see. They spend weeks hammering on Republican candidates and they *REFUSE* to make the public aware of Democrat Scandals, Corruption, or policy disasters. (The socialist failure of Venezuela would be constantly hammered upon in an objective media.)

Our party, and our movement *SHOULD* have been trying to destroy this existing media monopoly with fire. We should have been carpet bombing these crony media institutions with every power we could bring to bear within the force of the law.

We should have been turning our guns on the financial and control structures of these vile institutions instead of letting them get away with their propaganda.

We need to start attacking the media itself, and we need to scare the sh*t out of them. We need to send them to prison, and we need to let them know that we are going to work very hard to insure that they get put behind bars for attempting to rig elections.

It's time to quit pussyfooting around with these people and start hurting them in every legal way possible.

13 posted on 08/10/2016 9:46:34 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

So what can we do about it? How do we fight back?


14 posted on 08/10/2016 9:48:38 AM PDT by DNME (The only solution to a BAD GUY with a gun is a GOOD GUY with a gun.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Piranha

The new media, which everyone is going to, in part because of the break down of real journalism. Most people hunger for the truth. Even sweet lies are like living on a diet of chocolate bars Trump is leading the biggest change in American politics since FDR.


15 posted on 08/10/2016 9:49:13 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Grampa Dave
Criticizing the state of modern journalism, Tucker Carlson told AIM that journalists’ obsequious behavior, blatant bias and monolithic worldview have compromised the integrity of the nation’s fourth estate.

They have compromised the integrity of the election process. Our system cannot function when lies, omissions and misdirection are constantly fed to the populace.

In order to repair our Representative Democracy, we have to break the existing media's control of information.

We have to break down the artificial barrier they have created between the truth and the public.

16 posted on 08/10/2016 9:49:21 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

Yawn...Sorry - I’m too busy watching ‘Entertainment Tonight’..


17 posted on 08/10/2016 9:50:01 AM PDT by TomServo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

A +


18 posted on 08/10/2016 9:51:27 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

I could not agree with you more.


19 posted on 08/10/2016 9:52:32 AM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Crucial

Absolute brainwashing tool....to destroy critical thinking in the masses.

All the Founders knew that without a Free Press—which promotes ONLY THE TRUTH (as ALL Just Laws have to do), there is no ability for Free Will (choice).

The Hegelian Dialectic was set up in early 1900 to control all main news outlets, radio, etc., as the technology was put into EVERY house so lies could be repeated over and over so Lies would become “truth”.

Now—we have to throw out most everything we “learned” (were programmed) because it is all lies. When our foundation of “knowledge” is lies-—we know nothing and unable to correct the direction to hell.


20 posted on 08/10/2016 9:52:38 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 101-118 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson